The men's 5000 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at 15:30 MSK on 8 February 2014 at the Adler Arena Skating Center. All the medals were won by Dutch athletes — Sven Kramer, who set a new Olympic record, Jan Blokhuijsen (silver), and Jorrit Bergsma (bronze).

Jan Szymański in the second pair set the time of 6:26.35, which was only beaten by both athletes in the 6th pair, and Håvard Bøkko set the new leading time. Already in the next, 7th pair Denis Yuskov beat Bøkko' s time by more than three seconds, and in the middle of the distance developed even a bigger lead. In the next pair, Ivan Skobrev, the bronze medalist of the 2010 Olympics, failed to improve Yuskov's result and was provisionally left second. In the 10th pair, Sven Kramer, widely regarded as the main gold medal contender, initially was losing to the Yuskov's pace, but then accelerated and set the new Olympic record. The athletes in the 11th and 12th pairs all lost to Kramer but beat Yuskov, finally taking places from the second to the fifth, with all three Dutch athletes in medal positions. Only one pair remained, featuring Lee Seung-hoon, the 2010 silver medalist and the 2010 champion at 10000 m. However, he started to lose to Kramer's pace early in the race, and ended up twelfth, losing also to Patrick Beckert from his pair.

Qualification A total of twenty-eight speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of three skaters per country. The top 16 of the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 5000 and 10000 metres standings after the fourth World Cup race in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 12 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup 5000 metres. A reserve list was also made. Each athlete qualifying must have also hit a maximum time standard of 6:33.00 over the distance.

Alexis Contin of France and Haralds Silovs of Latvia qualified but withdrew. They were not replaced.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Sven Kramer at 6:14.41.

The following records were set during this competition.

Date Round Athlete Country Time Record 8 February Pair 10 Sven Kramer 6:10.76 OR, TR OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Competition schedule All times are (UTC+4). Date Time Event 8 February 15:30 5000 m men's final

Results The races were started at 15:30.Final Results On 24 November 2017, Russian skater Aleksandr Rumyantsev was disqualified for a doping violation.

Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 10 O Sven Kramer 6:10.76 OR, TR 12 I Jan Blokhuijsen 6:15.71 11 I Jorrit Bergsma 6:16.66 12 O Bart Swings 6:17.79 11 O Sverre Lunde Pedersen 6:18.84 7 O Denis Yuskov 6:19.51 8 O Ivan Skobrev 6:19.83 13 I Patrick Beckert 6:21.18 +10.42 6 O Håvard Bøkko 6:22.83 +12:07 10 6 I Moritz Geisreiter 6:24.79 +14.03 11 9 O Aleksandr Rumyantsev 6:24.93 +14.17 12 13 O Lee Seung-hoon 6:25.61 +14.85 13 2 O Jan Szymański 6:26.35 +15.59 14 8 I Shane Dobbin 6:26.90 +16.14 15 9 I Dmitry Babenko 6:28.26 +17.50 16 7 I Emery Lehman 6:29.94 +19.18 17 3 O Andrea Giovannini 6:30.84 +20.08 18 3 I Ewen Fernandez 6:31.08 +20.32 19 10 I Jonathan Kuck 6:31.53 +20.77 20 1 O Patrick Meek 6:32.94 +22.18 21 5 I Alexej Baumgärtner 6:34.35 +23.58 22 2 I Mathieu Giroux 6:35.77 +25.01 23 1 I Sebastian Druszkiewicz 6:37.16 +26.40 24 4 O Kim Cheol-min 6:37.28 +26.52 25 5 O Simen Spieler Nilsen 6:42.47 +31.71 26 4 I Shane Williamson 6:42.88 +32.12 OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

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